Search results for ‘Education’
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Court bans anti-LGBT school protests
A High Court judge has ruled that demonstrations outside a Birmingham primary school against LGBT-inclusive education should be permanently banned, saying the protests around Anderton Park school were having an adverse effect on pupils and staff.
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Farage says Brexit Party will stand in Labour marginals
So much for a Leave alliance so far. The Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has dismissed Conservative calls for his candidates to stand aside in key Labour marginals as “almost comical”.
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Seaside town of Jaywick named Britain’s most deprived area for third time
In recent years Jaywick in Essex has become notorious for its social problems.
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The family of 14-year-old Jaden Moodie demand an emergency halt to school exclusions
In a powerful interview with the family of 14-year-old Jaden Moodie, his sister and aunt tell Channel 4 News they want an emergency halt to school exclusions until authorities can provide an immediate alternative.
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Underage marriage in Iraq
The facts are shocking – young girls, some as young as nine – forced into marriage – in a country which should give women equal rights in everything from education to marriage and divorce.
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Stormzy to fund two more Cambridge students
The Grime star Stormzy says he is funding the costs of two more students from minority backgrounds to study at Cambridge. It follows his decision last year to support two students there – as part of an effort to help more students from black and ethnic minority families get to Oxbridge universities. Or is it simply perpetuating…
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Labour plan to scrap ‘unfair’ university admissions system
Tomorrow is A-level results day in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and Labour say they want to scrap the current university admissions system in England which offers places based on predicted exam grades, saying it penalises students from poorer families.
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FactCheck: how representative is Johnson’s first cabinet?
Boris Johnson has given 33 MPs a seat round the cabinet table.
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82% increase in reports of sexual violence in universities
Universities that provided figures to Channel 4 News showed an alarming rise in reports – from 65 in 2014, to 626 in 2018.
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82% increase in reports of sexual violence in universities
Universities that provided figures to Channel 4 News showed an alarming rise in reports – from 65 in 2014, to 626 in 2018.
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Parents fined because their SEN children won’t go to school
It’s tough enough for children with special educational needs, let alone getting the help they need from the school system.
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The five-year-olds excluded from school
They are barely, it seems, through the school gates before getting excluded – pupils as young as five years old who are being sent out of mainstream education.
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SEN children physically restrained at school, say parents
Parents of young children with special educational needs say they are frequently being physically restrained in school.
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FactCheck: are Conservative leadership hopefuls recycling old ideas?
The candidates have been keen to show that they have bold new policy ideas, but some of them sound a lot like things that have already been announced.
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Call to cut tuition fees to £7,500 a year
It was a review commissioned by Theresa May to examine ways to reduce the financial burden on students once they finish their education. Among its recommendations published today was that university tuition fees in England should be reduced to seven and a half thousand pounds a year. But the repayment period for student loans could…